NORWEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC FUND

Norwegian Photographic Fund (Nofofo) is a fund for allocating collective assets to artists who live and work in Norway, using photography and other camera-based forms of expression. The fund's assets are managed by a board of three people with two deputy members. The board is elected by the General Assembly of Forbundet Frie Fotografer (Norwegian Association of Fine Art Photographers - FFF). The administration of FFF's functions as the fund´s secretary.

Nofofo grants financial support to Fotogalleriet and FFF as fixed annual allocations. The fund also assess and submitted applications for project support, exhibition support, publication support or other material and relevant matters from individual artists. Since 2012, the fund has also granted annual support the Spring Exhibition (Vårutstillingen), that takes place at Fotogalleriet every year directed by FFF.

Nofofo welcomes application twice a year: 1 February and 1 September. The application deadline for fall 2015 is postponed with one month until 1 October due to the launch of our new websites.

History NOFOFO

HISTORY

Norwegian Photographic Fund (Nofofo) was established by FFF in 1979. Statutes of the new fund was approved by the association's board meeting 16 May 1979 and was approved by the Ministry 1 June 1 the same year (available in Norwegian only):

Nofofo sometimes support extraordinary projects, such as when they advertised for an editor for a magazine about camera-based in 2009. Of all the submitted applications, Nina Strand was granted the support with her idea for Objektiv. The magazine was then founded by Strand who today functions as Editor in Chief together with an advisory board. Objektiv is independent and not organizationally connectedto Nofofo, FFF or Fotogalleriet.